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Chapter 7 – Ultimatums Again

Author: Author Smart
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-26 19:03:18

Henry's Point Of View

Naomi’s words still stayed in my head long after the meeting finished. Her words had cut through the stale air of the boardroom like a blade, and the way she stood there... with her shoulders straight, eyes burning with fire, had left me strangely uneasy.

I’d seen hundreds of young workers come and go. None of them ever dared to speak with that kind of raw passion. They parroted numbers, projected graphs, and learned empty sentences. Naomi? She spoke like she believed every word, as if her soul was tied to the company itself.

And when Asher tried to shame her… the anger that rose in me had been so sharp, I almost forgot I was meant to be neutral.

I leaned back in my chair now, high up in my glass office, viewing the city, and rubbed the bridge of my nose. The skyline of New York stretched far below me, dazzling with lights and life, but it gave me no comfort.

Naomi Monro.

Her last name was the trouble. Her eyes, her smile, her stubborn courage—that was even somet
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